Only If —

What is the state of housing design in the US, and how are architects responding to issues such as climate change, the affordability crisis, increasing regulations and construction costs, and the demand for new housing that better reflects today's demographic realities? Only If's Narrow House was included in the inaugural Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies State of Housing Design 2023. The editors, Sam Naylor, Daniel D'Oca, and Christopher Herbert, surveyed over 1,300 architects, advocates, contractors, residents, developers, and designers to identify 113 projects that illustrate 25 important themes in contemporary housing design. Only If's work is included in the chapter by Inga Saffron alongside work by ISA - Interface Studio Architects LLC, Michael Hsu Office of Architecture, and Utile.

Only If designed the exhibition "Humanist Modernity" on view at the Delegate's Entrance at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The exhibition, curated by Kacper Kępiński, features the work of Maciej (Matthew) Nowicki and Stanisława Sandecka-Nowicka. She was a talented graphic artist and designer and the first female full professor of architecture in the history of the United States at University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design (former School of Fine Arts). He collaborated on the design of UN Headquarters with Walter Harrison, Le Corbusier, and Oscar Niemeyer, and was later appointed the first director of the North Carolina State University School of Architecture. He designed (with Stanisława Nowicka) the Dorton Arena in Raleigh, NC. His last major commission was the design of Chandigarh, a new capital of the northern Indian state of Punjab, before his tragic death in 1950. Organized by: National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning (NIAiU) Co-organized by: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York, Under the patronage of Krzysztof Szczerski, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York Programming partner: Polish Cultural Institute New York Partner: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York Partner: AIA New York | Center for Architecture Scientific curator: Prof. Bolesław Stelmach Ph. D. Arch. Curator: Kacper Kępiński Exhibition architecture: Only If Architecture (Karolina Czeczek) Visual identity: Katarzyna Nestorowicz Editing: Urszula Drabińska Translations: Natalia Raczkowska Acknowledgments: Peter Nowicki, Dominika Stecyk, Izabela Gola, Agata Lupoměská, Izabela Iwanicka- Dzierżawska, Piotr Kibort, Ewa Perlińska-Kobierzyńska Co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Photographs by Kacper Kępiński.

Only If's Narrow House has been longlisted for the 2023 Dezeen Awards. 235 projects⎻ 12 in the United States and 2 in New York City⎻ were longlisted among 4,800 entries from 94 countries.